The Pitt was…interesting.

It doesn’t touch Scrubs, which is by far the best medical show of all time.

This is my opinion mixed with the opinion of a good friend who’s a GP…we both thought it was “OK”.

The strength of The Pitt was that it was generally medically accurate in the moment. But, because it was structured as 24-style real time drama…the situations because absurdly compressed. It took place over what…15 hours in the ER? In those hours we saw way too many once in a lifetime events…if the mass shooting event wasn’t enough on its own.

The show might have been elevated to a top tier show if they didn’t try to have every episode play out the 90s drama formula. Somebody didn’t get the memo that the streaming wars have given writers the opportunity to write plots that build and develop character…and viewers can be ok with and often embrace the mundane…if it pays off.

It was just too much…the show didn’t need it to be the first day for a bunch of students, a staff assault/the last day for the head nurse, a mass shooting, the first day for an intern/a neurodivergent intern, a fake-out drug addicted doctor, an ambulance theft, a nonsensical ongoing father-son thing, abortion, medically assisted death, a rat infestation, etcetcetc (I got bored).